General skill guide

List

Alchemy

20-50 – Lesser of each potion
50-55 – Normal cures, few normal heals, some lesser poisons
55-60 – Normal heals, few normal cures
60-65 – Normal heals, few normal poisons

Tip; It’s recommended that you start with 50% alchemy. The skill is hard to gain and the explosions and poisonings make it even more annoying.

Archery

20-23 – Bow
23-38 – Short Bow
38-53 – Crossbow
53-65 – Heavy Crossbow

Tip; If you shoot arrows to the training targets on training ground, you can retrieve about half of them from the butte so you don’t need to buy so many new ones.

Arms Lore

20-65 – Use the skill on anything, like a carrot or a dagger.

Tip; The gain doesn’t depend on which items you use the skill on.

Anatomy

20-40 – Yourself
40-45 – Healer
45-50 – Tinker Guildmaster
50-55 – Blacksmith Guildmaster
55-65 – Warrior Guildmaster

Animal Lore

20-30 – Cow, llama
30-50 – Horse
50-60 – Shabooli warhorse, giant serpent
60-65 – Praetorian war ostard or any other ostard, frost wolf, could be gain even with shabooli warhorse

ANIMAL LORE 2:

20-30 – Rabbit
30-40 – Wildboar
40-50 – Deer
50-60 – Dark brown horse
60-65 – White horse

Animal Taming

20-30 – Cow, sheep, chicken
30-45 – Horse, deer, wildboar
45-55 – Brown bear
55-60 – Great hart
60-65 – Ostards

Tip; You cannot use same animal to gain again by releasing and retaming it. Also this list doesn’t contain all the animals you could use to gain skill, you will learn soon which will give you gain and which ones will not.

Blacksmithy

20-25 – Ringmail gloves
25-30 – Ringmail coif
30-35 – Ringmail arms
35-40 – Ringmail legs
40-45 – Ringmail tunic
45-50 – Chainmai gloves
50-53 – Chain coif
53-57 – Chain leggings
57-65 – Chainmail tunic

Bowcraft/Fletching

20-30 – Normal log and flute
30-40 – Normal log and tamborine
40-50 – Try tamborine with ribbon with walnut log
50-65 – Try lute with normal log

Camping

20-65 – Keep using kindlings in war mode. You can train it like that to 65.

Tip; You can aswell train it with war mode off

Carpentry

20-40 – Stools
40-50 – Small crates
50-60 – Large Crates
60-65 – Oaken Thrones

Cartography

20 – 40 – Detailed
40 – 65 – Regional

Cooking

20-65 – Cook the amount of fish steaks at once which has the skill

requirement closest to your skill

Detect Hidden

20-65 – Do it with a friend training hiding.

Tip; The person must be hiding around your detecting target. If you have 30% detect hidden, use someone with 40 hiding. If you always find him, try with someone with higher hiding, and if you can never find him do it with someone that has lower hiding.

Enticement

Also known as Leadership or Discordance

20-35 – Sheep
35-41 – Great hart
41-62 – Black bear
62-65 – Cave bear

Evaluating Intelligence

20-35 – Yourself
35-50 – Bless yourself
50-60 – Banker
60-65 – Carpenter Guildmaster

Fencing

20-30 – Dagger
30-40 – Pitchfork
40-50 – War fork
50-60 – Short spear
60-65 – Kryss

Fishing

20-65 – Just keep fishing with a fishing rod anywhere where there’s fish

around

Forensic Evaluation

20-65 – Just kill some animal or use it on a friend’s corpse, chop it

with your dagger and macro Forensic Evaluation on it.

Healing

20-60 – Just keep healing your wounds. The more wounded you are, the

harder it’s to heal.

60-65 – You can use lesser poison on yourself and after that cure yourself.

Tip; There are certain mobs to get poisoned with. Use a giant spider

Herding

20-33 – Rabbit
33-45 – Cat
45-65 – Goat

Hiding

0-20 – Vendor Train with the thief in Cove
20-40 – do it alone
40-50 – do it with 1 animal / person near you
50-60 – 2 animals/persons near you
60-65 – 3 animals/persons near you

Tip; If you get stuck, switch it 1 backwards for a while.

Inscription

20-30 – 2nd circle scrolls
30-40 – 3rd circle scrolls
40-50 – 4th circle scrolls
50-60 – 5th circle scrolls
60-65 – 6th circle scrolls

Item Identification

20-65 – Use the skill on any item, like a carrot or a dagger.

Tip; The gain doesn’t depend on which items you use the skill on. Just like with arms lore.

Lockpicking

20-30 – Despise
30-40 – Try those chests in Yew forest
40-50 – Maybe try those chests on first level of Covetous and Despise
50-65 – Despise

Tip; Just keep lockpicking chests you see, they have different difficulty depending on their location.

Lumberjacking

20-50 – Normal logs
50-62 – Walnut
62-65 – Oak, apple, pear, peach

Mace Fighting

20-23 – Pickaxe
23-28 – Club
28-33 – Hammer pick
33-38 – Mace
38-43 – Gnarled staff
43-50 – Sledge Hammer
50-58 – Black Staff
58-63 – Quarter Staff
63-65 – War hammer

Magery

20-30 – 1st Circle (Magic Arrow)
30-40 – 2nd Circle
40-50 – 3rd Circle (Poison)
50-60 – 4th Circle (Lightning)
60-65 – 5th Circle (Paralyze)

Meditation

20-40 – The altar at Britain.
40-65 – Keep meditating when training magery.

For religious characters you should use

restoration or effulgence from 40 - 50,
ennervation from 50 - 60
encumberance from 60 - 65.

Mining

20-30 – Normal ores. Dull copper, copper, bronze
30-40 – Clay is the fastest.
40-50 – Some sand to begin, then verite, syntian, iron, and aughlite to

begin

50-65 – Aughlite, verite, syntian, radlius, spiritstone, some dclaw and

shadow. Also mine Azurite.

Musicianship

20-30 – Fertility
25-30 – Lightheadedness
30-35 – Shielding
35-40 – Transportation
40-45 – Bane
45-50 – Sound of damage
50-55 – True seeing
55-60 – Boosting
60-65 – Recovery

Tip; Some songs are easier to play with a certain instrument. Wood types also affect the success rate, and therefore gain rate.

Parrying

20-23 – Wooden shield
23-38 – Buckler
38-53 – Bronze shield
53-65 – Metal shield

Peacemaking

20-65 – Go to some place with harmless monsters such as headless ones,

arm yourself with a weak weapon to not kill them and repeat peacemaking in peace mode.

Tip;This skill is very fast to gain. Use it in a place with lots of monsters who aren’t really dangerous.

Poisoning

20-40 – Lesser poison potion
40-65 – Poison potion

Tip; This is a very hard skill to train., costs a lot of money to buy potions.

Provocation

20-30 – Dog, sheep
30-40 – Wild boar, cow, brown horse
40-50 – Black horse, black bear
50-60 – Forest ostard, desert ostard
60-65 – Corpser

Remove Trap

20-30 – Unknown
30-40 – Try those chests in Yew forest
40-50 – Maybe try those chests on first level of Covetous and Despise
50-65 – Despise

Tip; Just keep removing traps from chests you see, they have different difficulty depending on their location. This skill’s training is similar to lockpicking.